Frank Hu

Hu presenting at a meeting of the US Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee in 2014

Frank B. Hu, or Hu Bingchang (Chinese: 胡丙长) (born in 1966), is a Chinese American nutrition and diabetes researcher. He is a Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health,[1] (formerly Harvard School of Public Health, as HSPH) and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Hu is also the Director of Harvard's Transdisciplinary Research in Energetics and Cancer Center;[2] Director of the Epidemiology and Genetics Core of the Boston Obesity Nutrition Research Center;[3] and Co-Director of the Program in Obesity Epidemiology and Prevention[4] at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Professor Hu was elected into the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)[5] in October 2015, one of the highest honours in the fields of health and medicine.

Education

A native of Hubei Province, China, Hu received his M.D. from the School of Public Health at the Tongji Medical University (now Tongji Medical School of Huazhong University of Science and Technology) in Wuhan in 1988, and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1996.[6]

Research

Hu is a prolific researcher and has published 900 original papers and reviews,[7] with more than 130,000 citations.[8] He is the principal author of a textbook on Obesity Epidemiology (Oxford University Press, 2008).[9][10]

His research has focused on epidemiology and prevention of diabetes and cardiovascular disease in both developed and developing countries. Hu is a recipient of the American Heart Association Established Investigator Award.[11]

In 1997, he published a study showing that types of fat are more important than total amount of fat in determining risk of heart disease in the Nurses' Health Study.[12] His recent work shows that unsaturated fats, especially polyunsaturated fats, and/or high-quality carbohydrates can be used to replace saturated fats to reduce coronary heart disease risk in the Nurses' Health Study and Health Professionals Follow-up Study.[13]

In 2001, Hu published a study to quantify the preventability of type 2 diabetes through diet and lifestyle,[14] showing that up to 90% of diabetes cases can be prevented by eating a healthy diet, maintaining normal weight, exercising regularly, not smoking tobacco, and consuming alcohol moderately.

Hu has conducted extensive research on sugar-sweetened beverages and the risk of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.[15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] Hu was the senior author of a 2014 meta-analysis which found that yogurt consumption was associated with a decreased risk of diabetes.[24] Another 2014 study co-authored by Hu along with Walter Willett found that the quality of the United States diet improved from 1999 to 2010, but that the gap between the diets of the rich and those of the poor had widened during this time as well.[25][26] Further analysis suggested that the improvements in dietary quality from 1999 to 2012 prevented 1.1 million premature deaths, and resulted in substantial reductions in cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes cases.[27]

Hu served on the IOM Committee on Preventing the Global Epidemic of Cardiovascular Disease: Meeting the Challenges in Developing Countries (2009-2010).[28] He served on the NHLBI Obesity Guidelines Expert Panel (2008-2013).[29] He also served on the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, USDA/HHS.[30] Hu received the Kelly West Award for Outstanding Achievement in Epidemiology from the American Diabetes Association in 2010.[31][32]

References

  1. ↑ "Frank Hu".
  2. ↑ "Harvard Transdisciplinary Research in Energetics and Cancer Center". Harvard Transdisciplinary Research in Energetics and Cancer Center.
  3. ↑ "Boston Nutrition Obesity Research Center".
  4. ↑ "Obesity Program". Obesity Program.
  5. ↑ "NAM Elects 80 New Members".
  6. ↑ Frank Hu's CV
  7. ↑ pubmeddev. "Hu FB[author] - PubMed - NCBI".
  8. ↑ "Frank B. Hu - Google Scholar Citations".
  9. ↑ "Obesity Epidemiology".
  10. ↑ "Obesity Epidemiology".
  11. ↑ AHA National Established Investigator Award
  12. ↑ Hu, F. B.; Stampfer, M. J.; Manson, J. E.; Rimm, E.; Colditz, G. A.; Rosner, B. A.; Hennekens, C. H.; Willett, W. C. (1997). "Dietary Fat Intake and the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Women". New England Journal of Medicine. 337 (21): 1491–1499. doi:10.1056/NEJM199711203372102. PMID 9366580.
  13. ↑ Li, Y; Hruby, A; Bernstein, A. M.; Ley, S. H.; Wang, D. D.; Chiuve, S. E.; Sampson, L.; Rexrode, K. M.; Rimm, E. B.; Willett, W. C.; Hu, F. B. (2015). "Saturated Fats Compared With Unsaturated Fats and Sources of Carbohydrates in Relation to Risk of Coronary Heart Disease: A Prospective Cohort Study". J Am Coll Cardiol. 66 (14): 1538–48. doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2015.07.055. PMID 26429077.
  14. ↑ Hu, F. B.; Manson, J. E.; Stampfer, M. J.; Colditz, G; Liu, S; Solomon, C. G.; Willett, W. C. (2001). "Diet, lifestyle, and the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus in women". New England Journal of Medicine. 345 (11): 790–7. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa010492. PMID 11556298.
  15. ↑ Schulze, M. B.; Manson, J. E.; Ludwig, D. S.; Colditz, G. A.; Stampfer, M. J.; Willett, W. C.; Hu, F. B. (2004). "Sugar-sweetened beverages, weight gain, and incidence of type 2 diabetes in young and middle-aged women". JAMA. 292 (8): 927–34. doi:10.1001/jama.292.8.927. PMID 15328324.
  16. ↑ Malik, V. S.; Schulze, M. B.; Hu, F. B. (2006). "Intake of sugar-sweetened beverages and weight gain: A systematic review". The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 84 (2): 274–288. PMC 3210834Freely accessible. PMID 16895873.
  17. ↑ Malik, V. S.; Popkin, B. M.; Bray, G. A.; Després, J. P.; Hu, F. B. (2010). "Sugar-sweetened beverages, obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and cardiovascular disease risk". Circulation. 121 (11): 1356–64. doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.876185. PMC 2862465Freely accessible. PMID 20308626.
  18. ↑ Malik, V. S.; Popkin, B. M.; Bray, G. A.; Despres, J. -P.; Willett, W. C.; Hu, F. B. (2010). "Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Risk of Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes: A meta-analysis". Diabetes Care. 33 (11): 2477–2483. doi:10.2337/dc10-1079. PMC 2963518Freely accessible. PMID 20693348.
  19. ↑ De Koning, L; Malik, V. S.; Rimm, E. B.; Willett, W. C.; Hu, F. B. (2011). "Sugar-sweetened and artificially sweetened beverage consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes in men". American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 93 (6): 1321–7. doi:10.3945/ajcn.110.007922. PMC 3095502Freely accessible. PMID 21430119.
  20. ↑ De Koning, L; Malik, V. S.; Kellogg, M. D.; Rimm, E. B.; Willett, W. C.; Hu, F. B. (2012). "Sweetened beverage consumption, incident coronary heart disease, and biomarkers of risk in men". Circulation. 125 (14): 1735–41, S1. doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.111.067017. PMC 3368965Freely accessible. PMID 22412070.
  21. ↑ Malik, V. S.; Pan, A; Willett, W. C.; Hu, F. B. (2013). "Sugar-sweetened beverages and weight gain in children and adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis". American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 98 (4): 1084–102. doi:10.3945/ajcn.113.058362. PMC 3778861Freely accessible. PMID 23966427.
  22. ↑ Hu, F. B. (2013). "Resolved: There is sufficient scientific evidence that decreasing sugar-sweetened beverage consumption will reduce the prevalence of obesity and obesity-related diseases". Obesity Reviews. 14 (8): 606–19. doi:10.1111/obr.12040. PMID 23763695.
  23. ↑ Malik, V. S.; Hu, F. B. (2015). "Fructose and Cardiometabolic Health: What the Evidence From Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Tells Us.". Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 66 (14): 1615–24. doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2015.08.025. PMID 26429086.
  24. ↑ Chen, M; Sun, Q; Giovannucci, E; Mozaffarian, D; Manson, J. E.; Willett, W. C.; Hu, F. B. (2014). "Dairy consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes: 3 cohorts of US adults and an updated meta-analysis". BMC Medicine. 12 (1): 215. doi:10.1186/s12916-014-0215-1.
  25. ↑ Wang, D. D.; Leung, C. W.; Li, Y; Ding, E. L.; Chiuve, S. E.; Hu, F. B.; Willett, W. C. (1 October 2014). "Trends in Dietary Quality Among Adults in the United States, 1999 Through 2010". JAMA Internal Medicine. 174 (10): 1587. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.3422.
  26. ↑ Hamblin, James (2 September 2014). "The Food Gap Is Widening". The Atlantic. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  27. ↑ Wang, D. D.; Li, Y; Chiuve, S. E.; Hu, F. B.; Willett, W. C. (1 November 2015). "Improvements In US Diet Helped Reduce Disease Burden And Lower Premature Deaths, 1999-2012; Overall Diet Remains Poor". Health Aff (Millwood). 34 (11): 1916–1922. doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2015.0640.
  28. ↑ "Promoting Cardiovascular Health in the Developing World: A Critical Challenge to Achieve Global Health.".
  29. ↑ "Managing Overweight and Obesity in Adults: Systematic Evidence Review from the Obesity Expert Panel.".
  30. ↑ "HHS AND USDA announce the appointment of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee.".
  31. ↑ "Frank Hu receives award for diabetes epidemiology research.".
  32. ↑ "Kelly M. West Award.".

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